Small suggestion - take all of the cells, highlight them.
Change the formatting from General to Number.
See if that works.
All the best.
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From: Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Related Methodology Debates [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sharon Condon [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 May 2013 10:08
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Subject: Re: Novice fsQCA User Question: the data
Hi Wendy
Thanks for your offer of assistance. I’m attaching my excel file. This was saved into a CSV and then imported – no missing values. Only ‘0’ or ‘1’ in the cells.
I found that when I checked the first few columns it was quite obvious where data in the cells had been changed. I would be interested to see if you get the same result. I was using fsQCA2.5
Cheers
Sharon
From: Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Related Methodology Debates [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wendy Olsen
Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2013 2:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Novice fsQCA User Question: the data
Hi Sharon
I also welcome you to send a copy of the data to me, and I will test it out. I assume you chose the MS Windows CSV option, not the mac csv option, when using Microsoft Excel to make the csv file? Or did you save straight out of SPSS? It will help if you indicate the software. Sending me the files is optional.
I hope you didn’t have any missing values. My own experience was that missing values occurring sporadically in the fsQCA columns could cause fsQCA to crash. For example if I try ‘compute’ with a column that has some data missing it won’t be able to complete the transformation to make a new variable.
My answer was to clean the data well, replacing . with 0 in all cells that are empty, before starting the work in fsQCA.
I have not had that particular problem in fsQCA though as I always found the data table quite stable. I have handled data files with around 50 columns and a couple hundred rows, containing a variety of measurement levels and types of variable.
Yours
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Sent: 17 May 2013 14:41
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Hi Peer
I save the file as a CSV and then import. I don’t know why the data is altering but there is a lot of data – too much to check that its all correct but I know at least some of it is changing.
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Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Novice fsQCA User Question
Dear Rachel,
I’m not quite sure what the problem is with this analysis. I would probably re-save the file with a different name, make sure that all is in order, and try again (you may have done this already). If you send me the file I’d be happy to take a look at it.
Dear Sharon: I’ve not had any problems with the fsQCA package. What file format do you use when you import the data into fsQCA?
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Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:36 PM
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Hi Rachel
I can’t help with the specific question you have but I’ve also been having trouble with the software. I’ve got a large dataset but it imports without any problems – but we’ve found that the software randomly changes data in cells. I’ve tested this over a few times and a colleague also has looked at it but the data in different cells gets altered. As a result I feel that the software is flawed and not to be trusted. I emailed the contact on the website with this information but I’ve been told I need to converse with Charles Ragin directly – which I haven’t done yet. I wanted to analyse some data on bushfire preparedness here in Australia and I’m presenting on this at a conference in Germany (leaving today) so it’s been quite a problem in that I can’t deliver on what I’ve stated in my abstract because of the issues with the software.
Good luck with it all.
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Hello,
I am attempting to teach myself how to use the fsQCA 2.5 software and I continuously receive error messages when I get to the “analysis” stage.
Below I describe the situation, and I appreciate any help this forum is able to provide. Thank you in advance!
I imported my data without any trouble. It consists of 31 Cases/Rows, each a different teen pregnancy prevention program, with about 20 Columns/Variables that represent attributes that are coded present (1) or absent (0). For example, one Column/Variable of interest is “School” and is coded =1 if the pregnancy prevention program is delivered in a school-based setting, and it is coded =0 if it is delivered in a non-school setting, such as a clinic.
Our research question for which we thought crisp set QCA would be useful is the following: what configurations of attributes are associated with “successful” programs. The binary outcome “successful” (1/0) is considered present if the teen pregnancy prevention program has a significant impact (evaluated by RCT) on any of certain pregnancy prevention behaviors (e.g. delayed age of initiation of sex or reported using condoms for most recent sexual encounter).
So far, I have been able to move through the following steps:
Analyze --> Crisp Truth Table Algorithm --> Outcome = anyoutcome (1 = program was successful on any of several desired behavioral outcomes, 0 = program was not successful on any of the desired behavioral outcomes) --> Causal Conditions = school (school-based program), 10-13 year olds (program targeted pre-adolescents ages 10-13 years), 14-15 year olds (program targeted young high school age adolescents, ages 14-15 years), 16-18 year olds (program targeted older adolescents), psychosocial skill building (program teachers psychosocial skills), behavioral skill building (program teachers behavioral skills), etc.
When I select a set of causal conditions, the program generates a Truth Table. I then manually code the outcome =1 for all those with consistency scores of .80 or greater, I manually code the outcome =0 for all those configurations with consistencies less than or equal to .30, and I delete the rows with no actual configurations existing or with consistencies between .30 and .80.
When I click on Standard Analysis, I get error messages such as: “ERROR (Quine-McCluskey): The 1 Matrix is Empty.”
Followed by: “Error: can’t read “rows”: no such variable.”
If I try Specify Analysis, I get an Intermediate Solution with no information, such as the following:
--- INTERMEDIATE SOLUTION ---
frequency cutoff: 1.000000
consistency cutoff: 1.000000
Assumptions:
Any help you can provide is most appreciated – thank you!
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